sweet banana --sweet cow horn and cayenne peppers i canned tomatoes for chili etc and made some out of this world salsa--quote from my brother--as he came down for somemore--he's going to build himself a raised bed this spring--by the way i heard adding oak leaves help acidify the dirt-great for my tomatoes--also last year-I learned the hard way how to keep racoons out of your garden-i had planted about twelve tomato plants had put some epsom salt in hole suppose to help them out-got up next morning all the plants were pulled up the coons wanted the salt-went on line found out if you spread black pepper and cinnamon on your garden and plants they won't touch them --replanted and they left them alone
i have alot of deer around too-but they didn't touch my garden--since the coon thing i have put a mineral/salt block out in the side of the yard--got pictures of deer coming to it--needless to say i live in the country-coyotes-wild turkeys-bob cats--and a neighbor saw a black bear about 100 yards from my house-haven't seen him myself but probably feed him feed everything else